After much trial and error and success with PWM and the neck servos (Hitec), I found I was having problems getting the servos to work together using basic pulse width in the Arduino code. Each servo worked perfectly when singled out, but trying a pan-tilt at the same time caused servos slamming to the ends …
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Torso Box and Neck
I got the pan/tilt assembly from Servo City on Saturday. While the unbelievable Packers-Cardinals game was on, I messed with prepping the Styrene box I had for the robot torso. I drilled the holes and installed the STPC SBC towards the back, and the compact flash and power connector fit (wasn’t sure until I tried). …
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Back to ArcGIS 9.4
Now the holidays are over. I’ve got to get back to testing ArcGIS 9.4……. So far I have it up and running on a spare workstation with XP Pro. The interface has changed quite a bit from the familiar ArcMap we have been used to since 8.3! I think they (ESRI) have supposedly rewritten everything …
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Std Servo and Accelerometer Communication
Part of my steps to get the different parts to talk to each other is a basic action/reaction workflow. With all this tinkering, nothing ever works out of the box! I soldered header pins onto a 2-axis accelerometer (Sparkfun) and hooked up to my breadboard. I had two Hitec HS-81 servos for the neck of …
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Messing with the Microcontroller
Now that I got The STPC working with Win2K and Dot.Net 2.0 installed on it, I started on the other aspect of the project – microcontroller integration. My plan is to get the PC board [SIC] to do the heavy lifting and the microcontroller to do the nervous system (think sympathetic) stuff, minute-to-minute. The first …
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Single Board PC and Loading Dot Net
Well, it has taken over a week, but the microcontroller/single board computer finally has an OS on it. This has been an ordeal. I actually had Win 98 on it, but couldn’t get .net 2.0 installed. I even had a universal USB driver so it acted like Win2K+ OSs and recognized and loaded USB devices. …
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